Eliot Kamenitz, The Times-Picayune archiveNew Orleans City Councilwoman Stacy Head

"Our miniature city council, with its disproportionate system of at-large and district seats in one body is a truly bizarre example of bad government design. The city charter needs to be amended to create a much larger, more meaningful, more representative body, rather than one where it only takes a clique of four people to decide an issue."